James McCune Smith
James McCune Smith (
1813 -
November 17,
1865), born to an enslaved mother in
New York, was the first professionally trained
African-American doctor. He attended the
University of Glasgow in
Scotland, where he received a doctorate in medicine in 1837. While in Scotland, Smith was a member of the Glasgow Emancipation Society. During the
1850s, he helped Frederick Douglass to establish the
National Council of the Colored People.
Some of his published essays
- A Lecture on the Haitian Revolution, (1841)
- The Destiny of the People of Color
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